Why it is impossible to pay to have everyone live right

My blogging seems to have reduced itself to monthly rather than weekly. Maybe I have said about all I have to say, and maybe I'm hoping the Health Care Plan will go away. On September 4th a very well meaning Dr. with personal experience in both giving and receiving medical care wrote a piece with the following headline: Millions Die due to Withheld Medical treatment. His name is Mark Hyman, MD, and the article was sent to me from The Huffington Post. The withheld medical treatment was dietary and life style changes that no insurance company pays for. As thrilling as the article was about the revelation to people that self control rather than expensive procedures is the best answer to successful health care, the theme of his article poses an economic conundrum. Do we really think we can pay everyone to live right? If we are paying people to live right will they be motivated? If we refuse them care because they won't live right are we oppressive? I am not going to make any thematic propositions regarding these questions. I have tried to show the radical problem of reducing the health care system to numbers and figures because the individuality of care is a thing that does not fit on a spread sheet. Dr. Hyman's plea for "rational" insurance that actually pays for what people need just shows the economic impossibility of the task of universal health care in The United States of America.